Alcoholic dementia is a silent epidemic‚ it’s cause is excessive drinking. This type of dementia goes undiagnosed and confused with other types of dementia. Alcoholic dementia is a lack of vitamin B1 and is detrimental to one’s health‚ especially in the aging population. Alcohol induced dementia is treatable and possibly reversible; even so‚ it is avoidable if drinking in moderation. Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with everyday life (Alzheimer’s Association. N.D.)
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nterview with an Older Adult Rachel Ehrbar University of New Hampshire In an effort to learn about the process of aging and what it means to someone who is considered an older adult‚ I interviewed a man who is approaching his sixty-seventh birthday in August. For the purposes of this paper‚ I will refer to the gentleman interviewed as John‚ a fictitious name in order to protect his privacy. John is the youngest of two sisters and one brother‚ who all grew up in a small town in New Jersey
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P2- Outline possible effects of dementia on an individual’s health and quality of life This assignment is going to outline possible effects of dementia on an individual’s health and quality of life. There are many different factors that having dementia will effect. As stated above some will affect the health of the person and others will affect the quality of life that the person will have. Depression is a common mental disorder‚ characterized by sadness‚ loss of interest or pleasure‚ feelings of
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| Hyponatremia in the Older Adult | 168344 | | Vivienne Ellison 09039422 | 8/6/2011 | | Hyponatremia in the older adult. Management of defects in water homeostasis in the elderly is often difficult because of age related changes and diseases that are associated with impairment of water metabolism. The feeling of thirst is often impaired in the elderly (Kugler‚ 2000). Hyponatremia is a serum sodium concentration of less than the
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Diagnosing Dementia Did you ever think how does the doctor diagnose dementia? Or how does the doctor decide that the person suffers from dementia or not? Previously the doctors thought that there is no specific test can make them decide if the patient has dementia or not‚ but nowadays they discoverd a specific diagnose and they classify it into two types. Diagnosis components is an information about the patient and his family and friends. The purpose of a diagnosis is to eradicate any other possible
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Book Review on Imagined Communities: Reflections on Origin and Spread of Nationalism Book Title: Anderson‚ Benedict R. O. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. and Extended ed. London: Verso‚ 2006. Print. Introduction Nationalism is a peculiar phenomenon. It is interesting and intriguing to find that people all around the world believe themselves to be a part of a community of a nation of whose they are citizens of. The sense of belonging and identity
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Dementia is a progressive disease found in mostly Older people. It is described as the deterioration of brain function. It will affect memory‚ thinking‚ judgement‚ behavior and other every day life skills. It can be caused by different medical conditions‚ along with other factors that occur through out someone’s life. Dementia is broken down into three stages based on progression. There are many interventions used to slow down the digression of the disease‚ one being Music Therapy. Dementia
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The Effects of Alzheimer’s and Dementia on the Brain My friend and her family are currently through a trying time now. Her grandfather does not know who she is; He is combative and confused‚ it hurts them to see him like this‚ he is not himself. Her father does not recognize his own father (Davis). This is Dementia. It does not only affect the patient‚ it affects the people around him. The question is how does Dementia and Alzheimer’s affect the brain? In 1999 the number of 4 million with Alzheimer’s
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Dementia D1 In this part of the essay I will evaluate how different approaches to caring for people with dementia can affect individual outcomes. I will evaluate the difference of someone living at home with dementia and someone who is living in a care home also suffering with dementia. When living at home with dementia the individual will have professional help come to them to help with daily tasks such as supervising medication intake‚ enabling optimum health and safety at home‚ providing a patient
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UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA INTRODUCTION Dementia is a progressive illness which occurs when the brain is damaged by disorders and diseases such as Alzheimer ’s disease‚ Huntington ’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or a series of strokes. The term dementia is not the actual disease in its own right but is the collective term used to describe the group of related symptoms caused by the gradual death of brain cells. These symptoms include memory loss‚ problems with reasoning‚ perception‚
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